July 2015

The Old-Fashioned American Tough Guy As I wrote originally many years ago, traditional masculinity is built on the shaky foundation of having to be ready at every moment to be proven. To be brief and succinct, the proof goes like…

Those Who See Are Also Blind A boy was seriously hurt in a car crash and his father, who was driving, was killed instantly. The boy was rushed to the hospital to undergo surgery. As the surgery team assembled, the…

You Just Have to See Them I divide my time between Northern California and Costa Rica, the two San Josés that have come to define so much of my life. When I first visited the jungles of Costa Rica decades…